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The Christchurch (New Zealand) City Council has spent nearly $1 million in recent years trying to get a swarm of midges at...

A 46-year-old worker recently was killed after falling 20 feet from the top of a tank at Marshall (Missouri) Water Treatment Plant.Scot...

Three teenagers in Troy, Indiana, were arrested after being accused of breaking into the town’s water storage tank.Utility employees found the doors...

A report from The Detroit Journalism Cooperative has indicated that more than 27,000 homes in the city had water turned off due...

A state auditor in New Mexico has accused a rural utility worker of embezzling $850,000 and gambling it away at casinos.The taxpayer...

A lengthy investigative report by The Seattle Times disclosed that human error was partly to blame for the devastating flood at West...

A worker in Chattanooga, Tennessee, was seriously injured earlier this month in an explosion that occurred while he was welding a wastewater...

A local septic pumper is suing the city of Taylor, Texas, for racial discrimination because he allegedly wasn’t allowed to dump waste...

Treatment plant operator Matt Moore said a bacterial bloom that recently grew out of Butte, Montana’s wastewater treatment plant resembled something from...

Stone Brewing Co. in San Diego, California, has announced a new craft beer made of treated wastewater called Full Circle Pale Ale.San...

A system malfunction at a water treatment plant in Machester, New Hampshire, resulted in the hospitalization of two firefighters.An automated fire alarm...

The city of Youngstown, Ohio, has reduced the salaries and suspended 25 water employees who were found guilty of falsifying credentials.The workers...

The American Society of Civil Engineers recently gave Alaska a C-minus on its infrastructure report card after getting a failing grade on...

Residents near Bloomfield, New Mexico, are forming their own utility after dealing with bad water for the past nine months. The state...